Press Release
A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Goes to Revived Memory Restaurant by Gordon Wang
The international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Gordon Wang for interior space and exhibition design
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Revived Memory Restaurant by Gordon Wang, designed for Gordon Wang Design Office, has been granted the A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category. The result belongs to the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The A' Design Award Explained
The Iron A' Design Award is awarded to good designs that meet the rigorous professional and industrial standards set by the A' Design Awards. This recognition is reserved for works that demonstrate a solid understanding of design principles and show creativity within their execution. Recipients of the Iron A' Design Award are acknowledged for their practical innovations and contributions to their respective fields, providing solutions that improve quality of life and foster positive change. These designs are a testament to the skill and dedication of their creators, showcasing their ability to address real-world challenges through thoughtful design.
About Revived Memory Restaurant
Revived Memory is a restaurant interior in Qinhuangdao, China, covering 1000 square meters. The space combines dining with music and performance. Seating is arranged in separate areas instead of many shared tables, giving each group a quiet and private setting. Large yellow mud walls recall the Loess Plateau, and open blank surfaces reflect traditional eastern simplicity. The banquet hall ceiling uses a wooden sunken panel structure with rounded arcs to increase the sense of scale. The design presents northwest Chinese culture in a modern and simple form.
About Gordon Wang
Gordon Wang, young interior designer, designdirector of Gordon Wang Design Office. He has been engaged in the design industry for nearly 10 years. He has completed many high complexity design projects, and won unanimous praise in the industry with professional ability and rigorous attitude. At the same time, he has made great achievements in many domestic and foreign design competitions.
Award Record
Gordon Wang is a winner of 1 A' Design Award, including this recognition.
About the A' Interior Space, Retail and Exhibition Design Award
The A' Interior Design Award is an international interior design competition recognizing good interior designs by interior designers and architects worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to interior designers, interior architects, architects and decorators from all countries. Typical entries include residential interiors, restaurants, hotels, offices, galleries and retail stores. The awarded interior designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/interior
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is to advance society through good design, by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, uploading a work and receiving a preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/99467
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/99467
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!99467
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/267655
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Revived Memory Restaurant
- Function
- Restaurant
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Maroon, Dark Slate Gray, Black, Dim Gray and Saddle Brown
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Gordon Wang Design Office
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Gordon Wang
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #99467
Credits
- Team
- Peiyu Hu, Hao Dong and Juan Zhang
- Image Credits
- Creator Gordon Wang, Revived Memory, 2019.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The whole space combines the elements of performance interaction to create an atmosphere of music restaurant. In the arrangement of seats, they subverted the idea of multiple tables for diners, mainly reflecting the design intention of precision, quietness and scenery, so that customers in each space can taste delicious food and experience the traditional intangible cultural heritage culture in the northwest in their own seats.
- Inspiration
- The project is located in Qinhuangdao, one of the first coastal open cities in China, a coastal city mainly for tourism, recuperation and vacation. Based on the traditional architectural language, this design ingeniously integrates the feeling of the Loess Plateau, reinterprets the Chinese cultural concept of the northwest cultural memory, shows the unique artistic beauty, and also realizes the return of a Chinese elegant life.
- Research
- This is a restaurant upgrading project. Because Party A has always had a dream of a century-old restaurant, hoping that the design can break the conventional way of dining, operation and layout, and give customers a fresh feeling, so the designers emphasize highlighting the northwest characteristic culture related to the cuisine and style of the restaurant.
- Challenge
- In the design method of the whole banquet hall, the classical elements of classical Chinese style are continued. The ceiling on the top is made of wooden sunk panel structure, with arc fillet treatment, which intentionally enlarges the scale, enhances the sense of space and avoids the depression of many people. It can achieve dynamic and static combination with the single stand area outside the hall.
- Realization and Technology
- A large area of yellow mud wall is introduced, which makes the dialogue between culture and people on the Loess Plateau Based on the flowing time and warm space. The blank space in many places constitutes the Oriental mood, echoing the elegance and simplicity of the traditional East.
- Operation and Interaction
- Without any complicated elements and changes, the design deconstructs the traditional Chinese elements and integrates the modern simple visual image to create the oriental flavor of pure and solid space, ancient and natural.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in August 2018 in Qinghuangdao and finished in February 2019 in Qinghuangdao.
- Specifications
- The project covers a total of 1000 square meters.
- Keywords
- Interior, Commercial, Restaurant, Revived Memory, Oriental Elements, Chinese Style, Dougong
